November 2012

Peter Brötzmann
A two-part special on the visionary improvisor and visual artist
who is still shaking the foundations of free music half a century
into his career.
Interview David Keenan visits Brötzmann at home in
Wuppertal, Germany and finds the 71 year old saxophonist’s stance
on music, art and politics unsoftened by age.
The Primer A user’s guide to Brötzmann’s sprawling
catalogue of solo and collaborative recordings. By Daniel
Spicer.

Niney The Observer
Derek Walmsley meets the elusive roots producer and traces his
story through the studios and streets of Kingston, Jamaica.

Stuart Wynn Jones
Advertising man by day, avant garde film maker by night, this
radical hobbyist was part of a UK postwar boom in amateur sound and
vision experiments. By Ian Helliwell.

Global Ear Basque Country
New punk and hardcore groups uphold the legacy of the autonomous
region’s 1980s Radical Rock movement. By Mark Lore.